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The Hope Project – A paradigm of successful Balkan Integration

Katerina Papakonstantinou BIT-Bureau for International Research and Technology

Cooperation

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– HOPE (EUROMAP 3)

– HOPE 2001

– IST Success Stories

– BIT

Overview

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Boosting Opportunities for Human Language Technology Uptake in Europe

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What is HLT ?

• Multilinguality– for all online content – translation automation– covering all language pairs

• Natural interactivity– voice and text, handwriting and touch– accessing language, image and sound– in user-friendly conversational mode

• Active content– across all natural languages – accessing all forms of knowledge– generating new knowledge

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Background and objectives

• Enormous potential of HLT research and user base in Europe• BUT: Low return on investment for HLT RTD funding in Europe

mainly due to lack of knowledge and awareness

• Euromap will try to boost market take-up by

• Encouraging closer co-operation between players• Building communities, at national and European level• Accelerating HLT technology transfer• Enabling the preparation of good HLT project proposals• Providing relevant information about existing projects

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Background and continuity

• 1996 Euromap I - surveying Language Engineering in Europe

• 1998 Euromap II - communicating the HLT and FP5 message to Member States

• 2000 Euromap III - delivering focused services to HLT communities

• Start 2/2000

• Duration until 1/2002

• 8 partners in 9 countries

• Volume: ca. 2.4 Mio. Euro

• HOPE 2001

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Activities in national level

• Build sector based communities– identifying players– workshops, publications

• Maintain contacts database• National HLT support service (help desk,information services etc.)• Help HLT players wishing to participate in the IST programme• Awareness activities like thematic national events, press releases • Company visits, case studies, good practice profiles

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Activities in european level

• Euromap as an integral part of HLTCentral.org web site

– HLT in Europe, results and opportunities, repository– HLT discussion forum, events and news, links– HLT partnering / Euromap contacts database maintenance

• Creating task forces to

– nurture communities in specific areas like tourism or e-commerce

– facilitate and encourage technology transfer

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Which partners by now?

Coordinator:Center for SprogteknologiNFP Denmark

Technical Support Team:ARAX,United Kingdom

VDI/VDE-TechnologiezentrumInformationstechnikNFP Germany

National Focus Points:

Verein für InternationaleForschungs- undBildungskooperation BIT,Austria

Nederlandse TaalunieBelgium /The Nederlands

Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, Italy CSC-Scientific Computing LTDFinland

Institute for Language andSpeech Processing, Greece

Instituto CervantesSpain

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Which countries by now?

Taalunie

VDI/VDE-IT

CST

CSC

Instituto CervantesBIT

ILSPCPR

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Perspectives

•Growth perspective for other EU countries– Responsibilities for other countries in HOPE by actual NFPs– Possibilities for including new NFPs

•Integrate future Euromap partners by– Spreading the word about HLT opportunities

– Cooperating with potential partners

– Euromap workshops and training sessions

•HOPE 2001– High impact PR-function

– path-to-market knowledge packaging and dissemination

– preliminary survey of HLT players, resources, opportunities in CEEC

– HLT Policy articulation in the EU

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HOPE 2001

BULGARIA

FRANCE

UK

ELRA

ITRI

CLPP

BG, TR, AL, RO, Croatien, SL

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new members

LMD(CLPP BAS)

BIS-21Bulgarian Information Society – Center of Excellence for Education, Science and Technology in 21 Century

TELRI II Trans-European Language

Resources Infrastructure

Slovakia, Hungary, Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Czech Rep., Estonia, Latvia,

and: BG, GR,

RO

BALRIC-LINGBalkan Regional Information Centers for Awareness and Standardization of Ling Resources and

Tools in HLT

East Extension

Other EU networks

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• IDEALIST- Information dissemination and european awareness launch for the ist programme under the 5th framework programme (Accompanying Measure)

• REGNET- Cultural Heritage in Regional Networks (Combined Measures)

• GN1- GEANT Network (RTD)

• TRAINCOM- Integrated communication system for intelligent train applications (Combined Measures)

• CMOSSENS- Smart Chemical Gas Sensor System Fabricated in Low Cost CMOS Technology with Integrated Electronics and Hybrid Sensitive Layers (RTD)

IST Success Stories

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• Private non-profit organisation founded 1993

• Personnel: 51

• Responsible for

– 5th Framework programme

– IRCA

– CEEC department

– EUREKA secretariat

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BIT objectives

• Support EU RTD Implementation in Austria• Enhance Austrian participation and success• Support co-ordination of RTD activities• Information dissemination

• free, user-friendly, transparent and equal access to international RTD co-operation

• Communication with all stake holders in RTD policy• Ensuring complementarity and synergies with national and

international RTD activities

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http://www.ideal-ist.net/

Information Dissemination European Awareness Launch for IST-Programme

Ideal-IST Partnersuche

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Report on research activities

Key Action and Field ofthe IST Programme

No of Interested parties Final Status: Consortiumsuccessfully formed

KA III- Multimediacontent and Tools

Total: 878 Greece5 Romania2 Bulgaria

2 Austria2 Greece1 Romania

KA I- Systems andservices for the citizen

Total: 491 Greece3 Romania2 Bulgaria

2 Austria1 Bulgaria

KA IV- EssentialTechnologies andInfrastructures

Total: 122 Greece1 Romania

No Balkan countries

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Thanks for your attention!

Katerina Papakonstantinou

Tel.: 01/581 16 16-141Fax: 01/581 16 16-18

hope@bit.ac.at

www.bit.ac.at/ist